Quotes About Influence

Focus, too, on understanding the operating model, planning and performance evaluation systems, and talent management systems, because they often powerfully influence how you can most effectively have an impact.

It is a sure sign of success when people begin to echo your themes without knowing they're doing so.

Your overriding goal in getting up to speed and taking charge is to generate momentum by creating virtuous cycles, and to avoid getting caught in vicious cycles that damage your credibility. Leadership ultimately is about influence and leverage.

Leadership ultimately is about influence and leverage. You are, after all, only one person. To be successful, you need to mobilize the energy of many others in your organization. If

So it shouldn't come as a complete surprise that the decision-making game becomes that much more bruising and politically charged the higher up you go. It's critical, then, for you to become more effective at building and sustaining alliances and for you to become expert in corporate diplomacy.

To be successful, you need to mobilize the energy of many others in your organization

Decision making becomes more political—less about authority, and more about influence.

Stakeholder Connection It's also essential to develop the right relationship wiring as soon as possible. This means identifying key stakeholders and building productive working relationships.

When you look outside yourself for affirmation, you give extraordinary power to the affirmer. When people have extraordinary power, they tend to abuse it.

What an internal coach says about his own employer and the conclusions and recommendations a coach gives to his own employer will inevitably influence how an employer treats the coach.

Kids … when someone's making decisions for you, you can bet that they've also decided to take what's yours.

JFK's great virtue, and the essential difference between him and George W. Bush, was that he had an instinctive appreciation for the chaotic forces of history.

A prime minister can chose his friends and his Cabinet but not his relatives. Part Chairman Lord Williams

The time for change is when it can no longer be resisted. In other words, when you have a man by the balls and are pulling hard, he will invariably follow in your footsteps.

Neither does the British Empire for which Churchill fought with all his heart. And no one believes what they read in the newspapers any more.

There was always plenty of collateral damage; politics left a trail of pain and tortured families in its wake.

La política requiere sacrificio. El sacrificio de los demás, por supuesto.

Base fear is intoxicating, overwhelming, liberating. Always stronger than respect. Always.

She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.

Clinton was, Graham told King [Larry] 'one of the most charismatic people I've ever met.' - p. 315

Most awkwardly, in the middle of all this [the Vietnam War], TIME reported that a group secretly financed by the CIA had funded Graham's Latin American crusade, which came as a complete surprise to Graham and prompted a repudiation: "I would never accept funds from any government agency," he declared, "especially the CIA.

I just didn't hang around the White House any more after Nixon ... Watergate changed me a little bit along that line." - Billy Graham

Very few people are remembered for long after they're in the ground.

Without an industry leader, practices desirable for the industry as a whole go unenforced. P.32